[Prefatory Note; This post consists of my responses questions posed by Daniel Falcone, an independent journalist two days after Mikhail Gorbachev’s death.] APPRAISING GORBACHEV I think it is safe to say that Mikhail Gorbachev had the greatest historical impact of any public figure since the end of World War II. To be sure, it is […]
[PREFATORY NOTE; a conversation in a non-Western setting about my memoir and Stuart Rees’s pioneering study of cruelty and its transcendence as analyzed and understood in part with the help of illuminating poems. IMAGINING A BETTER WORLD RICHARD FALK & STUART REES IN CONVERSATION WITH JOSEPH CAMILLERI PUBLIC INTELLECTUAL Described by some as the most […]
[Prefatory note: originally published May 7th, Counterpunch, later in Transcend media service (TMS); a review in the form of an interview, or more accurately, a conversation in which I do most of the talking}} The Fascinating Memoir of a “Citizen Pilgrim”: Q&A with Richard Falk BY BUSRA CICEK – DANIEL FALCONE FacebookTwitterRedditEmail Image Source: Cover art […]
American Institute for Economic Research, February 12, 2021 Sovereignty Still Rests with the People, Not Congress James Bovard Politicians lustfully rejoicing at their own power is the ultimate “dog bites man” story that goes unremarked in Washington. The Senate impeachment trial of Donald Trump included one such vivid vignette, an ominous warning that Congress recognizes […]
[Prefatory Note: this post is something new for me, an autobiographical fragment written at the request of an online listserv as a suggestive model for academics at the start of their careers as diplomatic historians. I publish it here. It was found unsuitable for publication by the group that made the initial solicitation for unspecified reasons.
[Prefatory Note: What follows is an interview with Daniel Falcone, author and educator, that was published in CounterPunchon December 14, 2018. The text has been slightly modified.]
[Prefatory Note: What follows is an interview with Daniel Falcone, author and educator, that was published in CounterPunchon December 14, 2018. The text has been slightly modified.]
Celebrating Noam Chomsky’s 90th Birthday
Chomsky does not subscribe to a one-dimensional notion of power that one often finds among many on the left who view power as driven exclusively by economic forces.
For Chomsky, ignorance is a political weapon that benefits the powerful, not a general condition rooted in some inexplicable human condition.
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